Sam Pree

“A weed is a plant out of place.’ Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.’ I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it’s a weed. I find it in my yard, and it’s a flower.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“such a noise?” “No, ma’am. In fact he”
― Iain Banks, Transition

“A grate wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. Wast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a grate tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.”
― Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro

“It felt like you could hurt her just by looking at her, or you could never hurt her at all.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand